double-tonguing

English

Alternative forms

double tonguing

Noun

double-tonguing (countable and uncountable, plural double-tonguings)

1. (music) A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes.
2. (music) The rapid repetition of notes in cornet or trumpet playing.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “double-tonguing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)